Kanye's Hospital Fashion Awakening
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A story about how Kanye West turned a serious accident into career-defining opportunities while hospitalized.
"Kanye gets in this car accident and his jaw is wired shut. He turns that to his advantage by creating a song called 'Through the Wire' rapping about his time there. The first line is about drinking Ensure - other people make pancakes, but he just drinks syrup because he can't eat solid foods.
He's laying in the hospital with nothing to do for 7 days - no cell phones, no smartphones. They had music videos playing but couldn't put the volume high, so he's just watching other rappers without sound. That's when he decided 'I'm gonna be the best dressed rapper in the game.' He realized all these rappers dress the same way in one style, so he was going to dress different.
And that decision in the hospital eventually led to him becoming a fashionable billionaire."
Shaan Puri
Host of MFM
Shaan Puri is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Milk Road. He previously worked at Twitch as a Senior Director of Product, Mobile Gaming, and Emerging Markets. He also attended Duke University.